Films as of October 11th
Your films as of October 11th.
William Friedkin’s last film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund, Lewis Pullman, Jay Duplass, Tom Riley And Lance Reddick, as of Oct 6 on Paramount.
Dream scenario, by Kristoffer Borgli, starring Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula and Dylan Baker.
All of us strangers, by Andrew Haigh, starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy
Io Capitano, Matteo Garrone
The Hunger games, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Francis Lawrence, starring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis.
Priscilla, Sofia Coppola
New Miyazaki film, The boy and the heron
Ferrari, next film by Michael Mann starring Adam Driver & Penelope Cruz, next Christmas.
FESTIVALS
October
Festival MyMetaStories – From October 6 to 29.
Programme
Festival du Film Féministe. From October 11 to October 15.
Programme
Expected films
She came to me, Rebecca Miller, with Anne Hathaway, Marisa Tomei, Peter Dinklage.
ALL YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT FILMS & SERIES
Women Make Waves International Film Festival
Created in 1993, the Women Make Waves International Film Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary in France, the cradle of cinema and feminism, at the Forum des images from September 19 to October 8!
30 women directors from different generations are in the spotlight, with fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films.
At a time when the international situation remains tense and Taiwan’s place is more crucial than ever in the global geopolitical balance, it’s the perfect time to present the diversity of its faces through 30 films directed by women.
Untold Herstory by Zero CHOU
Taiwanese women make waves. Closing film.
In the presence of Jane YU, festival coordinator.
With Pei-Jen Yu, Cindy Yu-Han Lien
Synopsis
In 1953, young Kyoko, a gifted drawing student, is sent to Ludao for re-education.
This island, 33 kilometers from Taiwan, was a penal colony from the 40s to the 80s. When the authorities decide on even more draconian methods, the young woman joins forces with other inmates.
Review
Based on Cao Qinrong’s novel “Liumagou No. 15: Green Island Girls Team and others” written in 2012, “Untold Herstory” tells the story of five women who lived through the hell of the infamous “re-education camp”.
Green Island was a taboo for a very long time; survivors were treated with contempt and even spied on by the government long after their release, even after the end of the White Terror period instituted by Chiang Kai Chek.
As one of them was executed while serving her sentence, the book is based on interviews with the survivors, their personal letters and official documents from the period.
Borrowing the ideas and details described in the book, Chou has created her own story with different characters who bear similarities to the survivors, but who are fictional.
While the actresses are all brilliant, the direction, despite some moving scenes, is a little too melodramatic and the film, alas, a little too long.
But it does have the merit of paying tribute to these heroines of history, long forgotten and unknown to the Western world.
Bernadette, Léa Domenach
Synopsis
When she arrives at the Elysée Palace, Bernadette Chirac expects to finally get the place she deserves, having always worked in her husband’s shadow to make him president. Shunned as being too old-fashioned, Bernadette decided to take her revenge by becoming a major media figure.
“BERNADETTE is a comedy about the revenge of a woman who, for too long confined to the role of wife and mother, decides one day to take her destiny into her own hands. And who better to play the last Queen of France than Catherine Deneuve?
Review
The film’s opening recalls Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War.
Basically, Bernadette is a woman who goes to war, a war of attrition to take the place she deserves.
Léa Domenach pays tribute to this woman who resembles many of our mothers, strong women forced to keep quiet, raised in the cult of patriarchy and who take years to realize their worth – when they do – and make themselves heard.
Well-written and well-acted, this fictional comedy tackles a number of topical issues – in addition to women’s place in society and equal rights – such as the rise of the Front National, eating disorders and mother-daughter relationships.
The director revisits a whole chapter of French political history, which seems very far from now.
Catherine Deneuve is terrific in this first feature, and the actors who surround her – Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz and Sara Giraudeau – all contribute to this success.
Script written with Clémence Dargent, who worked on the O.V.N.I series(a must-see on Canal +).
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz,Sara Giraudeau, Laurent Stocker, François Vincentelli, Lionel Abelanski.
A must-see. In cinemas now.
FILMS IN MOVIE THEATERS AS OF OCTOBER 11TH
Le Consentement, Vanessa Filho
With Jean-Paul Rouve, Kim Higelin, Laetitia Casta
Paris, 1985. Vanessa is thirteen when she meets Gabriel Matzneff, a renowned writer in his fifties. The young teenager becomes the lover and muse of this man celebrated by the cultural and political world. Losing herself in the relationship, she becomes more and more violently affected by the predator’s destructive hold over her.
Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, Sam Wrench
With Taylor Swift
The cultural phenomenon continues on the big screen! Immerse yourself in the unique concert experience of this historic tour, filmed with breathtaking cinematography.
Mal Viver, Viver Mal, João Canijo
With Anabela Moreira, Rita Blanco, Madalena Almeida
Several generations of women from the same family live in a hotel on Portugal’s north coast. The unexpected arrival of the youngest awakens long-standing grudges.
Love It Was Not, Maya Sarfaty
Of the first 999 women sent to Auschwitz, only 22 survived. Helena Citron was one of them. In Auschwitz, she attracts the attention of Austrian SS officer Franz Wunsch, who falls madly in love with her. Wunsch protects her as much as possible and saves her sister Roza from the clutches of hell.
De la Conquête, Franssou Prenant
Contemporary images of Algiers, the white city, and Paris are confronted with texts written by those who, from 1830 to 1848, carried out the bloody colonization of Algeria, which led to the destruction of part of the population, its culture and civilization.
Marie-Line et son juge, Jean-Pierre Améris
With Louane Emera, Michel Blanc, Victor Belmondo
Marie-Line, 20, is a noisy, energetic waitress. Her life is turned upside down when she meets a grumpy, depressed judge who hires her as his chauffeur.
Le Ravissement, Iris Kaltenbäck
With Hafsia Herzi, Alexis Manenti, Nina Meurisse
How did Lydia’s life go off the rails? Was it her break-up with her lover, the pregnancy of her best friend Salomé, or the meeting of Milos, a possible new love? Lydia is caught in a spiral of lies, and their lives are turned upside down….
Garder Ton Nom, Vincent Duquesne
With Nicolas Fustier, Pablo Pauly, Julia Piaton
Fabrice grew up admiring his charismatic father, and had no choice but to follow in his footsteps: become the local kingpin and defend his land at all costs. But now his wife Laetitia is urging him to leave to free himself from his father’s grip.
Vicenta B, Carlos Lechuga
With Linnett Hernandez Valdes
Havana, nowadays. In the Cuban capital, the streets are emptying due to the mass emigration of young graduates. The son of Vicenta Bravo, a “santera” with a gift for predicting the future, is no exception to the rule, and decides to set off for new horizons by moving abroad.
La Fiancée du poète, Yolande Moreau
With Yolande Moreau, Sergi López, Grégory Gadebois
A lover of painting and poetry, Mireille gets by as a waitress in the cafeteria of Charleville’s Beaux-Arts while living off petty theft and cigarette cartons. Unable to afford the upkeep of the large family house she inherits on the banks of the Meuse, Mireille decides to take in three tenants.
Lost country, Vladimir Perišić
With Jovan Ginic, Jasna Djuricic, Miodrag Jovanović
Serbia, 1996, in the heat of student protests against Milošević’s regime. Torn between his convictions and his love for his mother, a government spokesman, 15-year-old Stefan leads his own revolution.
Mathilde, Olivier Goujon
With Nicolas Bedu, Julien Rochard, Olivier Goujon
Inspector John Carlet is about to end a long and distinguished career as a vice inspector. However, if he is to regain his freedom, he will have to confront his first case of fifteen years one last time. An extraordinary investigation for which he was not prepared.
Movies to come (and we are looking forward to it):
The Color Purple, Blitz Bazawule (“Black Is King,” “The Burial of Kojo”) and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.
Expected December 25th.
Bottoms, Emma Seligman
Wonka, Paul King, in December.
TIPS ON MOVIE WRITING
Scott Myers : Go into the story
FILMS & SERIES PROGRAM ON TV AS OF OCTOBER 11TH
Mercredi – Wednesday 11
Canal + : Golda
Arte : Un amour impossible
Jeudi – Thursday 12
Canal + : Tehran
Arte : Le patient
Chérie 25 : Spy games
Vendredi – Friday 13
M6 : La Proposition
Arte : La fille qu’on appelle
Dimanche – Sunday 14
Arte : Black Book
W9 : Tamara
6Ter : Le discours d’un roi
Lundi – Monday 16
Canal + : D’argent et de sang
Arte : Péril en la demeure
Mardi – Tuesday 17
6Ter : Des hommes d’honneur
ARTE ‘ FILMS & SERIES AS OF OCT 11TH
Films
Péril en la demeure
Hired to give private lessons to a young girl, a naive guitar teacher becomes the victim of a plot… Who is manipulating whom? Starring Christophe Malavoy, Nicole Garcia, Michel Piccoli and Anémone, Michel Deville’s beautifully crafted psychological thriller.
Docs
Women’s health: from ignorance to recognition, Ursula Duplantier & Marta Schröer
Wrong diagnoses, inappropriate treatments, persistent shortcomings in higher education… The medical field, whose benchmark remains the male body, still too often neglects the physiological particularities of women.
Brainwashed
Through a rigorous analysis of over 175 film extracts, Nina Menkes shows that a systemic sexism guides the representation of women in cinema. Is the seventh art “the common language of rape culture”?
Series
Freedom, equality, sisterhood
In preparation for a conference, a group of feminists selected by an association meet for the first time. Ideological divisions, explosive debates and unforeseen affinities will make for a lively weekend. A humorous reflection on activism and intersectionality.
Sous contrôle, by Charly Delwart, with Léa Drucker
Promoted to Minister of Foreign Affairs, a respected NGO director discovers how diplomacy and politics are played out in the real world. A political comedy series, Sous contrôle features a joyful Léa Drucker as an idealistic leading lady confronted with the exercise of power, the codes of which she is unfamiliar with.
Your films and series to watch as of October 11th on Netflix
SERIES
The Crown season 6,
By Peter Morgan, Amy Jenkins, Duncan Macmillan, James Graham, Nick Payne, Tom Edge, David Hancock, Jonathan Wilson
November 16th: part I
December 14th : part II
Sex Education, season 4, Laurie Nunn, now.
The Diplomat, season 2
The Fall of the House Usher, Mike Flanagan, as of October 12th
FILMS
May December, by Todd Haynes, starring Cory Michael Smith, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, as of Dec 1st.
Yellow Door:’90s Lo-fi Film Club, Bong Joon-Hoo, as of Oct 27th
Fair Play, Chloe Domont, now.
I want to do it, Cuba to Florida! , Annette Bening & Jodie Foster. As of Nov 3rd.
The Killer, David Fincher, as of November 10th
Leave the world behind, by Sam Esmail (Mr Robot), produced by Obama couple.
As of December 8th,, with Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke & Mahershala Ali
A couple book a luxurious weekend at a Long Island villa, but the stay turns into a nightmare when the owner of the house suddenly arrives to seek refuge with his daughter, warning the family that a terrible catastrophe threatens the world. “Without telephone, television or Internet, the tenants are plunged into uncertainty. Can they really trust their hosts?
Maestro, by and with Bradley Cooper, and Carey Mulligan, as of December 27th.
Your films and series to watch as of October 11th on Prime Video
SERIES
Wilderness, by Marnie Dickens, starring Jenna Coleman & Will & Oliver Jackson-Cohen, now.
The Lost flowers of Alice Hart, Sarah Lambert.
FILMS
All The light we cannot see, Shawn Levy, as of November 2nd.
Awareness, Daniel Benmayor , as of Oct 11th
The Burial, by Maggie Betts, on Oct 13th
Saltburn, Emerald Fennell, Nov 24
Your films and series to watch as of October 11th on Canal+
SERIES
The undeclared war, Peter Kosminsky : a must-see.
D’argent et de sang, Xavier Giannoli, as of October 16th.
FILMS
She said, Maria Schrader (I’m Your Man, Unorthodox limited series), now.
Your films and series to watch as of October 11th on Apple TV & Canal+
SERIES
The Morning show, S3, now!
Monarch : legacy of monsters, Chris Black & Matt Fraction, as of Nov 17th
The Changeling, Anders Engström, now!
Lessons in chemistry, by Lee Eisenberg with Brie Larson (Elizabeth Zott), Aja Naomi King (Harriet Slone), as of October 13th
The Buccaneers, as of November 8, series creator Katherine Jakeways and directed by BAFTA Award winner Susanna White.
FILMS
Fingernails, by Christos Nikou, avec Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, and Jeremy Allen White, as of Nov 3rd.
Killers of the flower moon, Martin Scorsese, on October 18th.
Flora & son, John Carney , now.
Your films and series to watch as of October 11th on Disney Plus
FILMS
Quiz Lady, Jessica Yu with Awkwafina, Sandra O, on Nov 3
SERIES
The Bear, season 2, Christopher Storer.
Ahsoka, Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni.
The other black girl, as of September 13th, series by Danielle Henderson, adapted from eponymous novel by Dalila Harris.
Tout va bien, by Camille de Castelnau, starking Virginie Efira, Nicole Garcia, Sara Giraudeau, Bernard Le Coq, Aliocha Schneider, Yannik Landrein, Eduardo Noriega et Mehdi Nebbou, as of Nov 15.
Percy Jackson & les Olympiens, Chris Columbus, as of December 20th.
